Celebrity Chef Thanksgiving Tweets

What's Best About Thanksgiving? Chefs Tell Us on Twitter

In a little over one week, all of America will collectively be cooking up a frenzy of comfort food. To get you psyched for the biggest foodie holiday of the year, we enlisted the feedback of none other than the world's greatest foodies themselves: chefs. Using our favorite social media device, Twitter, we asked everyone from Top Chef Michael Voltaggio to Cooking Channel's Kelsey Nixon to tell us about their favorite aspect of turkey day.

"What's best about Thanksgiving? The house filled with people, meals that never end, everyone in the kitchen, pitching in," Ruth Reichl gushed, as if there were too many reasons to list. Her facetious counterpart, RuthBourdain, fired back: "What's best about Thanksgiving? Snorting marshmallows off sweet potatoes & climbing inside the turkey's cavity for a long nap."

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Restaurateur and TV host José Andrés apparently has a soft spot for pastry — and American football. His favorite part of Thanksgiving is "making pecan pie with daughters and watching the NFL, and to give thanks for what we have."

If Food Network's Alex Guarnaschelli were an animal, she'd be a squirrel. "Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday," she declared. "I love eating turkey while dreaming about digging into the pies." And this: "Shopping and cooking and loading up like a squirrel filling the tree with acorns for the Winter." Don't you feel cozier already?

Cooking for the whole family: relaxing? Yep, that's what Bryan Voltaggio said. "Eating and cooking with family; all the great flavors of comforting food during the cool Fall weather," he quipped. "Relaxing day!" When one operates a restaurant that seats up to 70 guests, even cooking for 20 is probably no big deal.

Oprah's former chef Art Smith couldn't have had a better year — he dropped 95 pounds and married his longtime partner in a star-studded wedding ceremony — but the Chicago restaurateur loves reminiscing about Thanksgivings past. "We all expect delicious comfort food served family style. I hate plated food in the home. I think it's unfriendly," he wrote. Turkey day "brings back memories of past Thanksgivings, when I make my family's recipes."

Turkey makes everybody sleepy, but Top Chef Just Desserts host Gail Simmons doesn't mind: "I love all of Thanksgiving: Spending a day in the kitchen with friends and family, feasting together, then taking a long, cozy nap!" she confessed. We're sleepy already.

"I am so lucky to own a fish restaurant," Eric Ripert tweeted. "Every year, I spend Thanksgiving with my family instead of roasting 1,000 turkeys." Even better than not serving on turkey day? Getting in touch with his Latin side: "I have a lot of fun, partying, dancing — part of the family is Puerto Rican." Eric, we'd love to see you salsa!